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I have been there, and still would go 'T is like a little heaven below.

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Isaac Watts
Age: 74 †
Born: 1674
Born: July 17
Died: 1748
Died: November 25
Hymnwriter
Philosopher
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Theologian
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Southampton
Hampshire
Isaac Watts
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
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Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
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Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
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Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.
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Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
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When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
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Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
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A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
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The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.
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